Alicia
Williams,
EdD, CSAC
Assistant Director Interprofessional Education and Research
East Tennessee State University
Alicia Williams, EdD, CSAC is the Assistant Director of Interprofessional Education and Research and Director of IPE Faculty Development at East Tennessee State University. Formerly, she served as the social health specialist in a fully-integrated primary care family medicine residency clinic for Quillen College of Medicine and has 20 years of experience working as a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor in community mental health prior to her work at ETSU. Dr. Williams earned her BS and MA in Psychology and her EdD in Educational Leadership from ETSU. She now specializes in curriculum development and assessment, faculty development, and educational program implementation.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In this lightning talk, presenters will describe an innovative, meta-teaching approach for training faculty to provide team-based learning experiences to interprofessional groups of health professions students. Faculty development programs have been found to positively change attitudes toward teaching and to facilitate the development of knowledge and skills in teaching methods according to medical educator participant reports (Steinert et al., 2006). However, to date, there are no established guidelines for preparing faculty to teach interprofessional groups of students. Program developers…
The Interprofessional Education Collaborative defines four competency domains as essential to interprofessional education (IPE). However, there is no consistent model for IPE curriculum development across health professions programs, and many learning opportunities are independent, siloed experiences offering little continuity from one experience to the next. Additionally, programs are challenged to provide authentic learning experiences that reflect both clinical and community health settings. Our asynchronous online IPE program addresses both challenges. The program structure provides a…
Background
Remote Area Medical® (RAM) is a non-profit providing free healthcare services to underserved areas, including rural Appalachia. RAM has collaborated with ETSU to provide patient services and learning opportunities for student volunteers at an annual clinic. Student teams consisted of undergraduate and graduate students with backgrounds in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, speech pathology, and others. The impact on students' attitudes through participation at the event has been followed for two years and the student impact on patient care has been collated for four years.
Strategy
To…
Collaborative practice among interprofessional groups of health care providers is essential to the provision of safe and effective medical care. However, health professions training programs have not traditionally prepared students for interprofessional practice. One challenge in transforming health professions education programs has been a limited number of faculty prepared to teach students in an interprofessional learning environment. Thus, faculty development programs aimed at preparing faculty to provide interprofessional learning experiences across disciplines are increasingly important…